Duplicate-sales-slip file.



S. F. ELLSWORTH. DUPLICATE SALES SLIP FILE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 25, 1913. ammwnn no. 24, 1914.

Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

flrramvers THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHDTV'LITHU" WASHINGTON. D. C

STANLEY 1i. ELLSV/ORTH, OF ST. JAMES, MINNESOTA.

lUlTTTlElDl fiTATEfi DTIPLIGATE-SELLESLIP FILE.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented net. as, rare.

Application filed January 25, 1913, Serial 1%. 744,209. Renewed December 534., 1914. Serial No. 878,93$.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that T, STANLEY F. ELLswon'rrr, a citizen of the United States, resident of St. James, in the county of V fatonwan, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DuplicateSales-Slip Files, of which the following is a specification.

In keeping a system of accounts with his customers the merchant provides a cabinet having recesses or compartments therein into which are inserted a series of shallow files in which the slips bearing the customers accounts are kept. The totals ofthese slips are carried forward from one to another, so that at any time the merchant standing directly in front of the cabinet, by glancing at the footing of the last slip, can tell the amount due from any customer. The files have labels bearing the names of the customers, but heretofore it has been necessary to draw each file out of the case or cabinet before the total of the account is exposed.

The object of my present invention is to provide a file having means which will expose the total amount due at the bottom of the slip and enable the merchant or clerk to determine this total without withdrawing the file from the cabinet.

The invention consists in various constructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation of a file cabinet embodying my invention, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the file with the slips removed, Fig. 3 is a similar view showing a slip in place therein, with the total thereon exposed, Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view illustrating the preferred means for holding the slip in place in the file.

In the drawing, 2 represents a cabinet having a series of filing compartments 3 therein. This cabinet may be made of any suitable size to provide any number of filing spaces, according to the volume of business of the merchant using the device.

4 represents the bottom of the sales slip file, having side and end walls 5 and 6, the former at the outer end of the file being preferably provided with a finger grip 'Z for convenience in handling the file. The bottom plate 4- at its outer end has a turned up portion 8 terminating in a backwardly turned part 9 which is secured, preferably at 10, to the side walls 5. The outer portion of the part 9 is forwardly and downwardly inclined to meet the part 8 and is preferably provided with lugs ii on which a name plate 1:2 may be mounted. This part 9 is also preferably provided with a recess 13 therein. A tongue 14L is preferably pressed out of the bottom 4:, with its forward portion adapted to swing vertically and normally contacting with the rear portion of the part 9. Between this tongue f and the part 9 the lower end of the sales slip is inserted, the remaining portion of the slip extending backwardly into the file. The pressure of the tongue on the slip will form a fold therein and bring the column containing the total of the slip in the rear of the recess 13, 'while the part of the slip adjacent to the total figures will be held with a yielding pressure against the part 9 by the tongue 14. This folding of the slip will tilt that portion containing the total figures to such an. angle that the figures may be plainly read through the recess 13 without the necessity of drawing out the file from the cabinet, and it is only necessary, therefore, for the clerk or merchant standing in front of the cabinet to glance at the end of a file to determine the exact total of the customers account.

The file may be made in any suitable size, and the construction herein shown may be modified in its details without departing from the scope of my invention, the essential feature of which consists in the exposing of the total of the account to render unnecessary even the partial withdrawal of the file from the cabinet.

I claim as my invention 1. A duplicate sales slip file having means for gripping the slip inserted therein and also having means for folding the lower portion of the slip at an angle to the remaining portion, said lower portion being visible from a point in front of the file to expose the total figures on the slip.

i 2. A duplicate sales slip file having a wall at its outer end provided with a recess therein, said wall being forwardly and downwardly inclined and means for folding asales slip against said wall to expose the total figures of the slip from a point in front of the file.

3. A duplicate sales slip file having a tongue pressed or punched from the bottom thereof, means provided at the outer end of the file between which and said tongue a sales slip is gripped, and means engaging the lower end of theslip to fold it against said outer end means and expose the total of the slip.

l. A duplicate sales slip file having a bottom provided at its outer end with a forwardly and upwardly turned portion terminating in an upwardly and backwardly extending portion having a recess therein, means for supporting a name card thereon, means for bending the lower portion of the slip against said upwardly and backwardly extending portion and in the rear of said recess to expose the total figures of said slip through said recess.

5. A duplicate sales slip file having a bottom provided with a spring tongue, a wall extending across the outer end of said file in a plane at an acute angle to the bottom of said file and having a recess therein, said wall having an extension forming a stop for said tongue and between which extension gripped and held with the total thereon visible through said recess.

6. A duplicate sales slip file having a spring tongue, and means between which and said tongue the sales slip is gripped, said means having an angular part provided with a recess through which the total on the sales slip is made visible.

'7. A duplicate sales slip file having means for holding a sales slip in said file, and means, associated therewith, for folding a portion of said slip to expose the total ligures thereon, so that they will be visible from a point in front of and on substantially the same level as said file.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of January, 1913.

STANLEY F. ELLSVORTH.

Witnesses LoUIsE M. ELLSWORTH, MADELIENE ELLSWORTI-I.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

